Published at Franciscan

Brandon Dahm on Correcting the Vice of Acedia through Wonder and Gratitude

May 17, 2022 Dahm, Breuninger, and McNamara
Published at Franciscan
Brandon Dahm on Correcting the Vice of Acedia through Wonder and Gratitude
Show Notes

In this episode we talk to Brandon Dahm about his recent article, Correcting Acedia through Wonder and Gratitude. We talk about virtue formation and fight vice, the nature of emotions and acedia, and how practicing gratitude and wonder corrects acedia.  The discussion includes the thought of the desert fathers, Evagrius and Cassian, Aquinas, G.K. Chesterton, and Robert Roberts.